Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar industry

Re:Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar... by tomcam on Saturday February 03, 2024 @03:50PM (#39244609)

I don't drink alcohol but I could tell you about the devastation I felt when Mtn Dew went to high fructose corn syrup.

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Re:Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar... by tomcam on Saturday February 03, 2024 @04:12PM (#39244789)

Sure, downvote my pain, you monsters

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Re:Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar... by deebosong on Saturday February 03, 2024 @07:02PM (#39246028)

Your corn-based pain amuses me, cretin. I'll deign some packets of cane sugar to alleviate your pathetic woes.

(Honestly, HFCS prob has wreaked legit havoc via the "death by 1000 papercuts" method.)

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Re:Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar... by tomcam on Saturday February 03, 2024 @09:51PM (#39247066)

I am groveling in pure joy

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Re:Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar... by dylan604 on Saturday February 03, 2024 @07:18PM (#39246149)

what does HFCS have to do with the availability (or not) of cork?

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Re:Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar... by malfist on Saturday February 03, 2024 @07:27PM (#39246203)

This isn't reddit

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Re:Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar... by tomcam on Saturday February 03, 2024 @09:52PM (#39247073)

You have no compassion

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Re:Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar... by fennecbutt on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:05PM (#39268959)

Tbf upvote/downvote systems are useless without context.

If it's users with similar upvote/downvote patterns as you = higher weight, then it's more effective.

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Re:Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar... by _sys49152 on Saturday February 03, 2024 @08:31PM (#39246629)

happened to me when coke bought out moxie. now its bitterless hfcs trash. Devastation indeed, RIP.

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Re:Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar... by jerzmacow on Saturday February 03, 2024 @08:36PM (#39246657)

I thought moxie was Orca brewing, is that who Coke bought?

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Re:Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar... by _sys49152 on Saturday February 03, 2024 @08:45PM (#39246711)

idk new hampshire cans sold out to coke. pennsylvania still makes the bottled ones and i believe theyre still sugar.....but it dosent taste the same. the new hampshire product was superior. coke nerfed it to nothing.

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Re:Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar... by tomcam on Saturday February 03, 2024 @09:55PM (#39247093)

You feel my pain, brother

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Re:Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar... by TylerE on Saturday February 03, 2024 @09:44PM (#39247045)

I believe you. I didn’t experience the switchover, but the real sugar/original recipe “Throwback” from about a decade ago was yummy. Can’t get it anymore, though.

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Re:Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar... by tomcam on Saturday February 03, 2024 @09:54PM (#39247085)

Pro tip: lasts longer if you mainline it

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